The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-22
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
To be Urged as the Handmaiden
of Prohibition.
A NATIONAL PROHIBITION PARTY

NASHVILLE, November 16.-The National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union met
IN Watkins hall at 10 o'clock with representa-
tives from almost every state and territory.
For the first time Indian Territory has sent its
representative. Mrs. Lido Memiwether,
president, of Tennessee, presided. Upon the
platform were seated Mrs. Judge Thompson,
of Hillsboro, Ohio, mother of the crusade in
1888; Pundlta Ramabai, vice-president of the
worlds w. G. 7. u. for India, and officers of
the National union. The hall is decorated
with beautiful banners and flowers. Mrs.
Hannah Whitehall Smith, lately returned
from England, opened the convention with
Bible reading on love. Before the browning
event of convention-Miss Wizards annual
address-the entire front of the platform was
lined with representatives of the press, among
whom were Miss Catherine Cole of the New
Orleans Picayune, and Mrs. M. Helen Crane,
for the New York World. Perfect quietness
prevailed while Miss Willard delivered her
annual address, which was frequently inter-
rupted by applause. In love, kindness and in
sympathy, in breadth of vision, and depth of
resolve, her message to the white ribbon
women cannot be excelled.
AT the conclusion of the address, Mrs.
Zerelda Wallace led in prayer, and then fol-
lowed the introduction of distinguished visi-
tors of Nashville, and DIR. Tanner of Alabama.
Following is synopsis OF the annual address
of Miss Frances Il. Willard, president of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union:
Forty states and territories have sent 400 repre-
sentatiyes to the metropolis of southern education,
northern housekeepers have crossed Mason and
DiXon's line to clasp hands with their sisters. No
surer token that we are nation has been given
since 1864. There are not enough anti-saloon
publcans at the north to carry prohibition in a
single state that are now struggling to it, and
there are not enough ant.saloon democrats at the
m nral n ynor nf
our constitutional defeats but there are enough
temperance men in both to take possession
ton in the party Of the near future, which
is to be q party of good. Miss Louise L. Smith, of
proposed that we district the nation giving to each
subdivision leader of its own ! hope her plan
may be carefully considered But my heart turns
Christ and prays for the time when her own halow-
ed ministers shall be so persuasive that outside soci
cites shall no longer PREVAIL when our legal work
shall broaden into Christian citizenship; our educa
tional efforts into public kindergarten and INDUS
t trial schools, ..,, where hygiene shall be
when the church ' shall Welcome US 'si To-
all her councils, lay upon our heads her consecra-
ting hands and claim for her own the voice that
speaks for Christ. We must work in the manifest
destiny Of the municipal ballot for women as
means of enforcing the prohibitory law, and en-
amendment which shall remove oil legal disabili-
ties from the daughters of the republic. believe
as its ultimate aim two amendments to the ma
uonal constitution.
The, first calling for universal prohibitions the
second, enfranchising women; and that it should
SsSre both the KRnshs Of Labor aboF
and Changers that 1t may incorporate principles OF
arbitration and corporation into its own with any
others that seem to be based upon Christian ethics
and Christian brotherhood. Among these is most
assuredly involved equal wages well as equal
moral standards for women and men; heavier pen
alties for crimes against women the raising Of the
age of protection to IS years.
The Women's Temperance Publication association
last year published thirty million pages-this year
over fifty million.
The total issue Of the Union Signal for year 63l-
600 copies, an average of l,428 copies per week.
Our four periodicals have combined circulation
The Womans Christian Temperance union of
Ohio has arranged for new department In the in
terest of peace This is strictly german TO temper
ance work, for nothing increases intemperance like
war, and nothing tends toward war like in
tteem ten We ought o 70 rejoice in
women as well as men, since whatever
conduces to the natural tonic and stimulus OF out
door life leads away from all narcotic drugs. The
future of the National Temperance hospital located
in Chicago, Is assured AS q temperance people,
we must no longer leave our interests undefended
in Washington | suggest that this convention
invite the Sons Of Temperance, Good Templars and
the prohibition party to combine with us In effort
TO engage Christian temperance lawyer at Wash
ington who shall watch interests as carefully as
Louis Shade d Co. do those of the brewers and dis
tlers / have always been opposed to secret socle-
relics gof MEDIEVAL Etimes, and destined 10 be-
come extinct But Good Templars and knights of
Labor have so much In them that is praiseworthy
their secretism is so nominal and their purposes
so helpnl-that 1t has always seemed to me they
formed exceptions TO the general rule believe
they will not always be secretive, even in name,
but that this useless feature win fade away and
merge into the light of the common day. IL is Il
satisfaction tonote the triumph of the better element
in the knights Of Labor over the anarchists and
socialists the growing influence of Mr.. Powderly
and the fearlessness of his utterances, and Mr..
Leitchmans, concerning temperance. But in these
days we feed and clothe thelpoor to wise purpose
when we show them how to feed and cothe them
selves. Temperance does that. Industrial training.
better wages, shorter hours of work. cooperation,
nrbitration-all these modem modes of blessing-wii
claim for those who work TO bring them, the holy
declaration from the lips OF the carpenters son, aye
did 1t unto Me-"